List of participants in the

OECD Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board (BEPAB)

January 2020 - The Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development has formed an expert group to
provide advice on its work on blockchain and other distributed ledger technologies. The current list of
members of the Blockchain Expert Policy Advisory Board can be found below.

For more information about the OECD’s work on blockchain, please visit www.oecd.org/daf/blockchain/

Member Position Company/Organisation

Adam Lusin Director, International Department of State, United

Communications, Information, and States
Emerging Technologies

Ahmed Tameen Software Project Manager Ministry of Information,

Egypt

Akihiko Yoshida Deputy Commissioner for Financial Services Agency,

International Affairs Japan

Alex “Sandy” Pentland Professor, Media Lab Massachusetts Institute of

Technology

Alex Sims Associate Professor, Department of University of Auckland

Commercial Law Business School

Alfred Früh Managing Director, Centre for University of Zurich

Information Technology, Society
and Law

Andreas Hartl Head of Division AI 1, Strategy Ministry for Economic Affairs

Artificial Intelligence, Data and Energy, Germany
Economy, Blockchain

Andrius Adamonis Blockchain Project Manager Bank of Lithuania

Anne Rothwell FinTech, RegTech and Financial Blockchain Ireland

Services Consultant

Anson Zeall Chairman Singapore Cryptocurrency

and Blockchain Industry
Association

Antonina Levashenko Director, Russia-OECD Center Russian Presidential Academy

of National Economy and
Public Administration
(RANEPA)

Ben Yablon Chairman and Co-founder SALT

Member Position Company/Organisation

Bernhard Haslhofer Senior Data Scientist, Digital Insight Austrian Institute of

Lab Technology

Bertrand Perez Managing Director and Chief Libra Association

Operating Officer

Bitange Ndemo Professor of Entrepreneurship University of Nairobi

Cara LaPointe Interim Co-Director, Institute for John Hopkins University

Assured Autonomy, Applied Physics
Laboratory

César Pérez-Chirinos Digital Transformation Advisor Ministry of Economy and

Business, Spain

Chungwon Lee Director, Multilateral Cooperation Ministry for Science and ICT,
Division Korea

Combiz Richard Abdolrahimi Emerging Technologies & Deloitte

Innovation Leader (Artificial
Intelligence Practice Lead)
Government & Public Services

Daniel Greenland Deputy Director, Office of Department of Treasury, U.S.

International Financial Markets

David Suomalainen Advisor, Division for Digital Ministry for Infrastructure,

Government Sweden

David Treat Senior Managing Director and Accenture

Global Blockchain Lead

Diego Guttierez-Aldviar CEO and Co-founder RIF/RSK Labs

Eleftheria Kostika Senior Advisor to the Bank of Bank of Greece

Greece’s Deputy Governor John
(Iannis) Mourmouras

Eva Kaili Chair, Science and Technology European Parliament

Options Assessment body (STOA)

Frank Ricotta CEO and Founder BurstIQ

Hanane Boujemi Executive Director Tech Policy Tank

Heather Dahl Executive Director and CEO Sovrin Foundation

Hennie Bulstra Convenor, User Group Diplomas and European Blockchain

Credentials Partnership

Hesham Bin-Abbas Emerging Technologies Consultant Ministry of Communication

and Information Technology,
Saudi Arabia

Igal Nevo CEO Israeli Blockchain Forum

Irene Adamski Partnership and Development Jolocom

Isabelle Corbett Head of Regulatory Affairs and R3

GovTech
Member Position Company/Organisation

Janko Gorter Head, Financial Market Netherlands Central Bank

Infrastructures Policy Department (DNB)

Jean-Marc Leclerc Government and Regulatory Affairs IBM

Executive

Joseph Lubin CEO and Founder Consensys

Joseph Thompson CEO Aidtech

Juan (Jane) Wang Associate Professor on blockchain Xi’an Jiaotong University

Jutta Steiner CEO and Co-founder Parity Tech

Koh Wee Siong Assistant Director, Next Generation Infocomm Media

Platform Development Authority,
Singapore

Lawrence Lundy-Bryan Partner and Head of Research Outlier Ventures

Lawrence Wintermeyer Co-Chair Global Digital Finance

Leanne Kemp CEO Everledger

Lee Schneider General Counsel block.one

Leena Im Global Payments Policy CaLibra, Facebook

Marco Bellezza Counsellor Ministry of Economic

Development, for Innovation
and Telecommunication, Italy

Maria Staszkiewicz Executive Director Czech Fintech Association

Mark Staples Senior Principal Researcher Data61, CSIRO

Mārtiņš Braslavs Senior Expert of Credit Institution Ministry of Finance, Latvia

and Payment Services Policy
Division, Financial Market Policy
Department

Matt Curcio Data Vice President Ripple

Matthew Smith Technical Specialist, Innovation Financial Conduct Authority

Division

Michal Číž Head of Digital Innovation Unit, Office of the Deputy Prime
Digital Agenda Section Minister for Investments and
Informatization, Slovak
Republic

Min Kyoung-sik Head, Blockchain Center Internet and Security Agency,

Korea

Moisés Menéndez Andrés Co-Founder IoBuilders

Nadia Filali Head of Blockchain Programs, Co- Caisse des Dépots

Founder and Pilot of LaBChain
Consortia
Member Position Company/Organisation

Najma Bichara Advisor, Digital Affairs French Ministry for Foreign

Affairs

Nasir Zubairi CEO Luxembourg House of

Financial Technology (LHoFT)

Nena Dokuzov Head of New Economy and Ministry of Economic

Blockchain Technology Project Development and
Group Technology, Slovenia

Nick Giurietto CEO and Managing Director Blockchain Australia

Nuno Rodrigues Member, Board of Directors Foundation of Science and

Technology, Portugal

Olaf Ransome Chief Commercial Officer Fnality

Perianne Boring Chair Chamber of Digital

Commerce

Péter Sajtos Policy Anaylist, Digitalization Policy Hungarian Central Bank

and Regulatory Department

Pēteris Zilgalvis Head of Unit, Digital Innovation and DG CONNECT, European

Blockchain, Digital Single Market Commission
Directorate

Philippe Thevoz Executive VP, e-government SICPA

Primavera de Filippi Permanent Researcher, CNRS; CNRS and Harvard University

Research Fellow, Berkman Center
for Internet and Society

Rahilla Zafar Director of Blockchain Programs IMVU

Rasmus Madsen Jensen Architect and Developer Maritime Authority, Denmark

Ric Shreves Director, Emerging Technology Mercy Corps

Ricardo Pizzuto Consultant Inter-American Development

Bank

Roberto Sasso President IT Research Club, Costa Rica

Roman Beck Professor, Business IT Department IT University of Copenhagen

Satu Vasamo-Koskinen Senior Specialist Ministry of Economic Affairs

and Employment, Finland

Shada Alsalamah Assistant Professor of Healthcare King Saud University

Information Systems Security

Sheila Warren Head, Blockchain and DLT World Economic Forum

Shin'ichiro Matsuo Research Professor Georgetown University

Silvia Attanasio Head of Innovation Italian Banking Association

(ABI)

Silvia Ciucciovino Professor University of Roma Tre

Member Position Company/Organisation

Simon Chantry CBDO BITT

Stefaan Verhulst Co-Founder and Chief Research and Governance Laboratory, NYU
Development Officer GovLab

Stein Bjørnstad Chief Commercial Officer Blockchangers

Steven Becker President and COO Maker Foundation

Suso Baleato Member Civil Society Information

Society Advisory Board
(CSISAC)

Tal Hefling Senior Advisor to Director General Capital Markets, Insurance

and Savings Authority, Israel

Tim Noonan Director International Trade Union

Confederation, Belgium

Tom Kettels Operational Lead Infrachain

Valery Vavilov CEO Bitfury

Vanessa Almeida Manager, Blockchain Initiative Development Bank, Brazil

Ville Sointu Head of DLT and Blockchain Nordea

Yannis Kemel Deputy Head of Unit, Financial Treasury, France

Technology and Public Policy

Yavuz Beyribey Vice President Digital Transformation Office,

Turkey

Yoni Assia CEO eToro and the Good Dollar

Project

Yorke Rhodes III Principal Program Manager, Microsoft Azure

Blockchain Engineering